The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Thursday demanded that Amazon.com remove from its website books that deny the Holocaust and promote anti-Semitism and white supremacy.
Lithuania will hold this weekend official commemorations to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nazis’ liquidation of the Vilna Jewish ghetto days after the Lithuanian parliament passed a bill aimed at protecting the right of kosher and halal slaughter in the Baltic country.
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder welcomed reports that Argentine, Roman and Catholic authorities are moving to block a funeral for notorious Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, who died Friday at age 100.
More than 70 members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and Holocaust survivors will gather on the site of the former Auschwitz death camp on January 27 for an historic session on combating anti-Semitism.
''I doubt whether Assad read Anne Frank’s diary, when he didn’t hesitate to use chemical weapons to murder innocent women and children'', said Israeli President Shimon Peres on Sunday at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam as he started his official visit to the Netherlands, referring to the chemical attack of Syrian forces that killed up to 1400 civilians last month.